Can whoever knows about PCs please make it their priority to sort out at least one (preferably two) high-spec working machines for the admin office. Lynne has a lot of pressure on her at the moment and she's trying to do the accounts on a machine that randomly shuts itself down about three times a day.

I brought in a small P4 box and put Ubuntu on it. It is in the admin office and just needs a working network card. Graeme dropped on off, and it just needs to be put in. The user data from the old admin box can be copied over. I might get some of this done tonight, depending on how busy EMing is. Otherwise, it will be a while before I have more time, so someone else is welcome to do some.

Hi all. I'd be happy to pass by and try to troubleshoot some of the computers. Since I am a new volunteer, I would probably need someone to show me what computers are in need of attention and also to type in admin passwords as required. I'm the Hannah advised™ Maxime guy by the way.

Basically we need to keep everything on our admin computer. All the Open Office programmes and files in the following folders:

'Home''ShareAdmins''Lynne''Emma'

And equally important is our 'gnu' accounts package.

All of the above are stored in the higher level 'file system' you get to through accessing the 'computer' option on the 'places' menu bar of Open Office. I think this would probably be the best thing to copy and re-install?

There are a lot of other folders contained in the 'file system' which James set up when he programmed the computer, and I don't know if they're necessary. A techie person would have to look at them...

If we could get another computer networked up so that two admins could work at the same time that would be very, very useful! We asked for this to happen when Emma started back in February, but it hasn't been possible as yet...

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Just thinking... an easier way to test admin comp might be to take working comp from action room and stick admin hard drive inside it, see if things work proper. If so, great! If not, look's a software prob and needs backup & reinstall.

Swapping hard drive would be a lot quicker. Waddaya think?

i don't have the time/impetus/experience to deal directly with this so i'm putting the suggestion here

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Billy has set up the Shuttle in the admin office and transferred the relevant files across from the old machine. He didn't have time to transfer everything, but the main ones (Shared, Lynne, Emma, James) are done. We also took Baoboa from the action room and set up in admin office. No changes have been made to Baoboa, but it has a bunch of people's files on it. It will need to be set up to access the Shuttle. I don't know what to do about the other files which are already on there.

We don't know what can be salvaged from the old office comp. It should probably be kept for a while just in case we need to retrieve something.